Sentences with phrase «half loaf»

As an example of «better living,» Mauchly asserted that computers might one day serve to lower the cost of a loaf of bread.

Lynn Gordon, proprietor of French Meadow Bakery in Minneapolis, started her bread - making business in her kitchen, producing 40 loaves a week for local co-ops.

Across the bakery, a woman bagging loaves waves to the boss.

So if you want someone to take a big leap and do as you say, buy the person a chocolate marble loaf and several butter croissants at Starbucks around 7 a.m., as well as one of those ridiculous Frappuccinos.

Erron Herndon, who is part of a supervisory team that oversees all 400,000 loaves that get wrapped, sliced and shipped from the bakery each week, is a prime example of the type of employee Dahl looks to hire.

The fancy sourdough bread we like was still $ 6 a loaf, a big bag of Kettle Krinkle Cut chips remained $ 5.39 and, dare I admit it, our new puppy's favorite all - natural dog treats were still $ 11.99 a bag.

They've also spiced the loaf with assets like global real estate and Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS), whose returns generally rise with inflation.

He is currently able to deduct the extra expense the family incurs in meeting their diets — deducting, for example, the premium that a loaf of gluten - free bread costs over an ordinary loaf of bread.

The biggest complaint is that a loaf of specialty (non-Pullman) sandwich bread will not fit in the 64 - ounce, small - sized container (despite Lock & Lock's marketing photos.)

But if you look at who gets the bulk of the benefit, corporations, wealthy individuals, they got the whole loaf of bread and you got, yeah, crumbs.»

Researchers have also found that some participants of brainstorming sessions tend to engage in «social loafing,» meaning they put in less effort because responsibility is shared with other group members.

Your dilly - dallying around, your excuses, your poking, playing, puttering and loafing about aren't fooling anyone.

As its buying power lessened with time (a penny in 1858 could buy a loaf of bread), Canadians became reluctant to carry pennies, hoarding them in jars and leaving them in convenience store take - a-penny trays.

The Conch Republic retaliated by declaring war, blasting water from fire - boats, and throwing stale loaves of bread at offenders.

A full - page four - color ad in The Southern Voice, a newspaper directed toward Atlanta's gay population, ran them $ 450, as opposed to $ 4,000 for a comparable ad in Creative Loafing, an alternative paper serving the same geographic market but not specifically targeted toward gays.

Maybe it's time to remind yourself of the value of the other non-monetary values of loafing, including boosted creativity, stress reduction, time to reflect on big - picture questions and perhaps even improved relationships if you spend some of that leisure time with those you care about.

He likely remembers the price paid for his first car, the rent on his first apartment, and the price of gas, a loaf of bread, a movie ticket, and a postage stamp.

«The public - interest folks in particular are afraid that you'd be lucky to get half a loaf with this Congress, and that that's not good enough.»

Think about it; if you were unlucky enough to buy into the stock market at the peak in 2008, just before the financial crisis hit full force, your gains (excluding dividends) wouldn't buy you much more than two loaves of price - fixed bread at Loblaws and a bag of President's Choice sour grapes.

According to Israeli media, he was the brains behind a June 18 arson attack on a shrine in northern Israel where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

The base of the Old Homestead stuffing is a $ 46 loaf of sourdough flown in from the U.K.. Its kicker is a foie gras that cost $ 54 per pound.

Now the mix changes to Meat Loaf, U2, and, surprisingly, Guided By Voices and Dinosaur Jr., a pair of postpunk bands that fit in well.

To see how each toaster handled breads of different shapes and sizes, we toasted dozens of loaves of basic white bread, bagels, frozen waffles, and English muffins.

A bread loaf price may not have increased, but investment - inflation — as in RE or GLD or SPY — have sky rocketed.

A liter of milk and loaf of bread are under $ 4.

We are near «Pão de Açucar» (Sugar Loaf), one of the most famous sightseeing in Rio (8 min drive) is also located near Copacabana beach (5 min drive)

Their price is $ 4.65 for a slightly smaller loaf.

But I still don't really know what to charge per loaf, I don't want to charge too much but I don't want to «gyp» myself.

I had no idea what it costed to make a loaf, so I started doing the math.

She has volunteered with a number of groups, including The Miracle Foundation, Capital Area Food Bank, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and Walk for Water.

Michael was named one of 20 People to Watch in 2014 in Atlanta by Creative Loafing, has been awarded Top Up - and - Coming Entrepreneur at TiECON Southeast 2013 and 2010 Mobile Marketer of the Year by the Tech Marketing Awards and is a frequent speaker on startups.

They took trillions in investor dollars — mostly pension funds and foundations — and multiplied them many times over like so many loaves and fishes, developing a mystique as modern - day miracle workers.

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

Bring a homemade loaf of bread and leave it with a note by the front door of a friend going through a hard time — or just to brighten their day.

«The grant from the Walmart Foundation has been transformational for our organization because it now means we can help more families with more food,» said Peter Sinclair, Executive Director, Loaves and Fishes Food Bank, Nanaimo, BC.

The very fact that he is standing behind a lectern bearing the vice-presidential seal is, one could argue, a loaves - and - fishes - level miracle.

Carrot breads, sourdough and cinnamon - raison loaves and chocolate chip and peanut butter snicker - doodle cookies entice customers from behind glass shelves.

Like a small amount of yeast will raise the entire loaf of bread, so a small amount of something the Pharisees had to offer would affect the entire thing they touched.

What is the point in continuing to pretend that a 747 is a loaf of bread??? Wishing that something were so doesn't make it so.

Aquinas sat a moment, mind withdrawn From his mouth's taste of buttered loaves, the song Without, the wish for more wood in the fire To clear the frost from stone or to admire The cool swift brilliance of all he said As a swan plumes its white and well - turned head.

I love how people that believe in burning bushes, and the Red Sea parting, and others who believe in a man walking on water, and feeding thousands with a loaf of bread find other philosophies so unrealistic.

We don't know the name of the boy who brought five loaves of bread and two pieces of fish to Jesus» sermon, but he left a legacy that far surpasses his meager means.

From the 1980s to the present, the number of prominent Jesus jokes has multiplied like loaves and fishes:

Surely if a person showed up in Ethopia today and fed everyone with a couple loafs and fishes, at least one person would write about it.

Any more crazy then burning bushes, loaves and fishes, Moses mountian climbing with huge stone tablets, possessed suicidal pigs, water into wine and the other «miracles» of faith in the Bible????

But until that happens, the richest country on earth has enough loaves and fishes for all.

• In a somewhat hostile article on Pope Benedict in the influential German weekly Der Spiegel» roughly the German equivalent of Time, if Time were written about four grades higher» the writer speaks of the Evangelical Christians in Latin America «multiplying there like the loaves and fishes in Canaan.»

When you take an inventory, you are counting your loaves and fish.

In a moment that surely bewildered the disciples, Jesus replies, «Go and see how many loaves you have.»

They return with a meager five loaves and two fish, which is enough for Jesus.